Friday, August 27, 2004

New Threads Friday
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get yer DANCE ON!!!
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Trellis
Design: Bonne Marie Burns
Yarn: GGH “Bali”
Color: #44 Lime & #84 Aqua
Gauge: 20sts /28 rows over 4″
using #6 needles

If garments could talk this Trellis shell would shout HOORAY!!! I’m done and ready for some FUN!

read the Complete b.Limey Notes HERE

As always, it’s TGIF once again here at ChicKnits! BY gum it’s one of the last weekends of summer and what have we here?

The annual Bucktown Arts Fest!
August 28-29, 2004
2300 N. Oakley Ave.

“Following the directive,

Thursday, August 19, 2004

More Sublime b.LIME

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Back into the Garden we go, and things start to get a little tricksie…

Your pixelated pixie eyes do not deceive!

That is indeed, INTARSIA around the neckline of the Trellis Shell.

I became intrigued by lattice lace around the proposed V of the neck but what if…

It was a DIFFERENT COLOR?!

That is how the wacky AQUA became a part of this equation in the first place!

The LIME, even in it’s splendiferous BRIGHT GLORY was actually just too boring on its own…

Now it sings FIESTA! Partay! Sexay! Come On & Dance, all you red-headed girls!

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Lattice Lace DETAIL

Intarsia DETAIL
from the Wrong Side

Read the Complete b.Limey Notes HERE

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

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Throw a catchy tune my way and my brain doesn’t stand a chance.
I’ll be singing it over and over the livelong day – against my will even.
Perhaps this has happened to you…

Lime. Aqua. SING IT!!!

I can’t get away from it – it’s been a lifelong attraction on clothing I’ve made and worn. One of my favorite dresses I ever made back in the day when I was trying to SEW all my wardrobe instead of KNIT IT was a turquoise dress trimmed in lime green piping…

and… Have MERCY! I’ve been inspired by a purse…

AGAIN…

If you recall this missive’s March 9th entry, I was overcome by a desire to couple Brown and PINK because of the way Jana Feifer used them together on her initial series bags.

Well she’s playing MY TUNE again –

Just in time for those Lazy, CRAZY days of Summer, a wonderful, outrageous, not-for-everybody cup-O-Iced-Green-Tea with a Sprig of Mint…

Or a garden of luscious tropical foliage and sky…

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TRELLIS
noun [C] : a light frame made of bars of wood or metal crossed over each other, fixed to a wall for plants to grow up.

At first, I was calling this design “Arbor” because of the color being so evocative of my love of trees. When I drive up to Michigan to see the Familials, there are miles and miles of Forest Preserves and the undulating greeness of it all makes the miles (300) fly by.

But something I’ve decided to try on the front of this piece demanded a change in the look of the back.What you see is a Trellis – angled lace that emanates from a center stitch and travels to each side edge.

If all goes well and I’m, well, just plain lucky, something this way grows…

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the Green Goddess wants YOU!

Juicy Couture’s Sweats

Lacoste Baseball T

Language Sequin Top

Marc Jacobs Venetia

Anthropologie

All blime all the time
Complete Notes: b.Limey